About the Center
Creative Causality Research Center is an independent research platform created to study fundamental questions concerning reality, life, the human being, intelligence, society, technology, and the processes of creation.
The Center does not confine its research to the boundaries of a single scientific discipline. Many fundamental questions lie at the intersection of different fields of knowledge and require the comparison of data, models, and methods that are usually considered separately.
The Center’s primary task is to create an environment in which existing knowledge can be systematized, different concepts compared, hypotheses formulated and tested, and the resulting understanding used for further research and practical projects.
Origins of the Center
The idea of creating the Center took shape gradually through years of reflection, independent research across different fields, and the development of original concepts and hypotheses by its founder, independent researcher Dmitry Tastaev.
As this work progressed, it became increasingly clear that many questions treated separately by different fields of knowledge are connected at a much deeper level. This created a need for a research environment in which accumulated knowledge, established scientific understanding, different concepts, and hypotheses could be compared, tested, and developed in relation to one another.
At the same time, another limitation became apparent: however talented and versatile an individual may be, individual research has its limits. Complex questions require different kinds of knowledge, experience, and ways of thinking.
For this reason, the creation of the Center was also driven by the recognition of the need for collaboration among people who are deeply engaged in research, the search for answers, and the understanding of the causes behind what occurs.
Such collaboration does not require complete agreement. Its foundation should be a commitment to inquiry, a willingness to test one’s own assumptions, and the ability to work together toward a deeper understanding of the questions being investigated.
Principle of Research
The work of the Center is based on distinguishing between different levels of knowledge.
An observed fact must be distinguished from its interpretation, an established regularity from a model, a model from a hypothesis, and a hypothesis from a philosophical or authorial concept.
This distinction makes it possible to discuss even the boldest ideas without presenting an assumption as established knowledge.
The Center’s task is therefore not to defend a predetermined picture of the world, but to investigate reality consistently.
Principle of Open Knowledge
No theory, model, or concept should become dogma merely because it is accepted, familiar, or belongs to a particular tradition.
Any model may be revised when new observations, arguments, or experimental data require its refinement.
This applies equally to the Center’s own concepts.
Openness of knowledge does not mean abandoning rigorous criteria. On the contrary, it means remaining willing to examine the foundations of one’s own conclusions.
Development of Methodology and Ontology
One of the Center’s central tasks is to develop a clear and internally consistent research methodology that makes it possible to distinguish observation, fact, interpretation, hypothesis, model, and conclusion, and to define criteria for testing them.
At the same time, the Center works toward the formation of an ontology — a system of fundamental concepts and the relations between them, necessary for a coherent description of different domains of reality.
Methodology determines how we investigate and test knowledge.
Ontology determines what we distinguish and which concepts we use to describe what is being investigated.
Their joint development should create a common conceptual and research foundation upon which knowledge from different disciplines can be brought into relation.
Bringing Knowledge and People Together
Modern knowledge is highly specialized.
A physicist, biologist, programmer, philosopher, engineer, linguist, or social researcher may study different aspects of the same process while using different descriptive languages and different methods.
One of the Center’s tasks is therefore to create an environment for interaction between different fields of knowledge and the people working within them.
Such interaction makes it possible to consider complex questions not only within individual disciplines, but also at the level of the connections between them.
The Center is open to researchers, developers, specialists, and independent thinkers who are prepared for reasoned discussion, the testing of their own assumptions, and collaborative work.
From Knowledge to Research
The accumulation of information is not in itself research.
Knowledge becomes a research instrument when it enables us to formulate new questions, identify contradictions, develop hypotheses, and find ways to test them.
The Center’s work therefore follows a sequential process:
Knowledge → Research → Project → Implementation → New Knowledge
The result returns to the research process and becomes a foundation for the next level of understanding.
From Hypothesis to Technology
Research does not necessarily have to end with a theoretical conclusion.
If a discovered principle allows practical testing or application, it may become the basis of a project.
A project may begin with an idea and pass through successive stages:
Idea → Hypothesis → Model → Experiment → Prototype → Technology
Not every hypothesis will become a technology.
Not every experiment will confirm the initial assumption.
A negative result is also a research result when it helps refine a model and rule out an incorrect direction.
Research Areas
The Center’s work encompasses several interconnected areas:
— the Universe and the nature of reality;
— Earth and life;
— the human being and human nature;
— intelligence and reason;
— society and civilization;
— language, knowledge, and meaning;
— technology and artificial intelligence;
— art and creativity.
These areas are considered not as isolated disciplines, but as different levels in the study of a single reality.
The connections between them may be no less important than the processes within each individual field.
Causality
Causality occupies a special place in the Center’s research.
Most sciences study regularities in occurring processes. Yet behind the description of a regularity lies a more fundamental question:
why does this particular sequence of events arise, and what causes a system to change its state?
The study of causality leads to questions concerning the emergence of structure, organization, purpose, choice, subjecthood, and the capacity to create new states of reality.
For this reason, causality becomes one of the connecting categories between physics, life, intelligence, society, and technology.
Creative Causality
Causality in itself does not determine the direction of change.
Some processes create new possibilities; others reduce them.
Some systems increase the capacity of their elements for development and independent action; others use those elements as resources for their own preservation.
The Center therefore studies a particular class of causal processes — creative causality.
By this we mean causality whose result is an increase in the potential for existence, development, knowledge, and further creation.
In this sense, creation is not merely the production of a new object.
It is the creation of conditions under which further development becomes possible.
Practical Implementation
Research gains additional significance when understanding can be tested through action.
The Center therefore provides for the possibility of moving from theoretical research to experiments, models, software systems, engineering solutions, and other practical projects.
A continuous cycle emerges:
Knowledge → Research → Project → Implementation → New Knowledge
Practice becomes a means of testing theory, while the results of practice return to research.
An Open Research Environment
The Center does not assume that answers to fundamental questions have already been found.
On the contrary, many of the problems under consideration remain open.
An important part of the work is therefore the ability to formulate questions, propose alternative explanations, criticize existing models, and create new ones.
But freedom of hypothesis must be accompanied by responsibility for its justification.
The stronger the claim, the stronger the grounds it requires.
Purpose
The purpose of the Center is not to create yet another finished picture of the world.
Its task is to develop a research environment capable of consistently expanding our understanding of reality, improving methods of inquiry, forming a more precise system of concepts, and transforming acquired knowledge into new possibilities for the human being and society.
The Center therefore regards knowledge not as an end result, but as part of a broader process:
Knowledge → Understanding → Testing → Creation → New Possibility.